Designers: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
An experiment in additive manufacturing, specifically automated composite tape-layup using industrial robot arms. Successive layers of tape in the form of grids are precisely applied over complex 3dimensional surfaces, each layer slightly with variation; both in visual appearance and structural behavior. The resulting surface is ‘thick’; embedded with multiple materials and systems into a single part.
layered joints, prototype >
Designers: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
An experiment in additive manufacturing, specifically automated composite tape-layup using industrial robot arms. Successive layers of tape in the form of grids are precisely applied over complex 3dimensional surfaces, each layer slightly with variation; both in visual appearance and structural behavior. The resulting surface is ‘thick’; embedded with multiple materials and systems into a single part.
layered joints detail, prototype >
Instructors: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Students: Al Ataide, Mehrzad Rafeei, Somayyeh Ramezani, Peter Vikar
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
Video: (link)
This 5 day workshop couples synchronous robotics with advanced animation techniques, exploring new analytic and representational possibilities. The task was to use the SCI-Arc Robot House’s unique configuration to dynamically disassemble and re-assemble through methods of synchronous robotic movement.
Bullet time light drawings >
Designers: Brandon
Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
Video: (link)
‘Hot Networks’ is an experiment in repetitive unpredictability. It aims to capture the transient transformation of a material in motion, and uses the randomness and wildness inherent in materials as opportunities for design. By applying the precision and accuracy of robots with the reaction of prolonged exposure to heat, the objects express themselves in multiple ways; highly iterative and regular on one hand, and completely wild and irregular on the other. While typical manufacturing scenarios are obsessed with the production of large quantities of near exact objects, this duality produces a tension in each piece made, where no one object is ever the same and variation in material reactions is encouraged.
prototype joint detail >
Designers: Brandon
Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
Video: (link)
‘Hot Networks’ is an experiment in repetitive unpredictability. It aims to capture the transient transformation of a material in motion, and uses the randomness and wildness inherent in materials as opportunities for design. By applying the precision and accuracy of robots with the reaction of prolonged exposure to heat, the objects express themselves in multiple ways; highly iterative and regular on one hand, and completely wild and irregular on the other. While typical manufacturing scenarios are obsessed with the production of large quantities of near exact objects, this duality produces a tension in each piece made, where no one object is ever the same and variation in material reactions is encouraged.
simultaneous tasks >
Designers: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
‘Hot Networks’ is an experiment in repetitive unpredictability. It aims to capture the transient transformation of a material in motion, and uses the randomness and wildness inherent in materials as opportunities for design. By applying the precision and accuracy of robots with the reaction of prolonged exposure to heat, the objects express themselves in multiple ways; highly iterative and regular on one hand, and completely wild and irregular on the other. While typical manufacturing scenarios are obsessed with the production of large quantities of near exact objects, this duality produces a tension in each piece made, where no one object is ever the same and variation in material reactions is encouraged.
(left) custom paint deposition tool
(right) gradient opacity
Designers: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
An experiment in additive manufacturing, specifically automated composite tape-layup using industrial robot arms. Successive layers of tape in the form of grids are precisely applied over complex 3dimensional surfaces, each layer slightly with variation; both in visual appearance and structural behavior. The resulting surface is ‘thick’; embedded with multiple materials and systems into a single part.
fiber tape detail, prototype >
Designers: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto
Research Institution: SCI-Arc, 2012
An experiment in additive manufacturing, specifically automated composite tape-layup using industrial robot arms. Successive layers of tape in the form of grids are precisely applied over complex 3dimensional surfaces, each layer slightly with variation; both in visual appearance and structural behavior. The resulting surface is ‘thick’; embedded with multiple materials and systems into a single part.
tape deposition tool, prototype v2 >